The Dublin venue will operate with a reduced capacity of 27,000 for this game, rather than its full capacity of just under 52,000:
LEINSTER HAVE SOLD around 23,000 tickets so far for this Friday’s Champions Cup quarter-final against the Leicester Tigers [KO 8pm] at the Aviva Stadium.
With only a six-day turnaround from Leinster’s round-of-16 win over Ulster last weekend at the same venue and with the game taking place at 8pm on Good Friday, the decision has been made to keep the upper tier of the Aviva Stadium closed.English club Leicester have taken roughly 500 tickets for the game, returning the rest of their allocation, with the short timeframe making it difficult for more of their fans to travel to Dublin.
Those potential extra ticket sales make moving the quarter-final to the Aviva more financially rewarding for Leinster. Having the upper tier of the stadium open would have meant considerably more expense for the province.
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